Jiyai Shin capitalizes on Nelly Korda's back-nine struggles to lead by 1 at Women's British Open
Two-time champion Jiyai Shin has capitalized on a back-nine collapse by top-ranked Nelly Korda to take a one-shot lead after the third round of the Women’s British Open at St. Andrews
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Two-time champion Jiyai Shin capitalized on a back-nine collapse by top-ranked Nelly Korda to take a one-shot lead after the third round of the Women’s British Open at St. Andrews on Saturday.
Nothing will give the 36-year-old Shin more confidence heading into the final round than how she collected the last of her seven birdies in a 5-under 67 at the home of golf.
On the par-4 17th, the famous Road Hole, the former world No. 1 hit a fairway wood that landed at the front of the green and rolled round to inside two feet from the pin.
That took Shin to 7-under par at the fifth and final major of the year, and it's the number the South Korean will set off on Sunday in her bid to follow up her titles at the British Open in 2008 and 2012.
